[X-Unix] 10.5 netinfo ?

[Eric F Crist]

On Nov 17, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Russell McGaha wrote:

> What's the equivalent to netinfo on 10.5?  When I installed Leopard  
> it thought I had a "Shared" Users folder, [which I actually had at  
> one time, but no longer] and did not copy my /Users folder over to  
> the new Mac.  Normally this would be not problem, cp -Rpv the /Users  
> folder, to the new /Users folder, go into NetInfo and change where  
> the 'Home' folders are located, reboot, problem fixed.  HOW is this  
> done under 10.5 ????

 From what I understand, netinfo has been replaced with Directory  
Services, which has a pretty robust command line utility called dscl,  
short for Directory Service Command Line utility.

There's a pretty good article on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetInfo_Manager

HTH
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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks